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Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1984-01-05

Ohio Jewish Chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1984-01-05, page 01

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VOL.62 NO.l
JANUARY 5,1884-SHEVAT1
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals,
Illusion And Reality In Mideast Explored
Fania Fenelon Dead At 75
PARIS (JTA) —-Fania Fenelon, the musician who survived
the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and later told the
world of having to play in the women's orchestra there while
millions went to their death during the Holocaust, died of cancer recently at the age of 75. Her sister-in-law, Madeleine
Goldstein, said there would be no funeral because Fenelon
donated her body to medical research.
Argentine President Names
Two Jews To Commission
BUENOS, AIRES (JTA) — President Raul Alfonsin has ap-~
pointed Dr. Gregorio Klimovsky, of the.Latin American
branch of the World Jewish Congress, and Rabbi Marshall
Meyer, spiritual leader of Congregation Beth El here, to the
newly, created national commission investigating the disappearance of individuals under previous Administrations
during the "dirty war" in the mid-1970s. Alfonsin decreed the
creation of a 16-member commission to satisfy-the "legitimate interest" of civilian society "in participating in the
clarification of the tragic episodes in which thousands of
people have disappeared." According to reports by human
rights agencies, some 30,000 people have disappeared.
Among the "disappeared ones" are an estimated 3,000 Jews.
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
The Reagan Administration
appears to be pinning its
hopes for reviving President
Reagan's moribund Middle
East peace initiative on the
slim expectation that Yasir
Arafat has been so chastened by his defeat in Lebanon that he is ready to give
his blessings to the entry of
King Hussein of Jordan into
the peace talks.
It was this possibility that
was given by at least one
senior State Department official as one of the reasons
for United States support of
the unhampered departure
of Arafat and some 4,000 of
his Palestine Liberation Organization terrorists from
Tripoli recently despite Israel's strong protest that it
was disgraceful that the
PLO was leaving under the
'Nanette' Opening Night Party
Promises To Be 'Bee's Knees'
Gallery Players is plam
ning an opening night party
for No, No, Nanette that will _
be the ,5fbee's knees." - -'- ~
For readers born after the
Soviet Emigration
Hits 20-Year Low
NEW YORK (JTA)-The
Greater New York Conference oh Soviet Jewry
(GNYCSJ) last week announced that 1,307 Jews will
have emigrated from the Soviet Union by the end of 1983,
the lowest number in 20
years.
At a press conference in
the Roosevelt Hotel, Assistant Secretary of State for
Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Elliott
Abrams announced that as
of Dec. 22, only 1,284 Soviet
Jews were granted emigration visas. Abrams pointed
out that this represents a
drop of 98 percent from 1979,
when 51,320 Jews were allowed to emigrate. Herbert
Kronish, GNYCSJ chairman, projected the 1983 emigration total of 1,307 based
on the numbers released by
Abrams.
Abrams said that this
"drastic decline in Jewish
emigration is clearly the result of deliberate Soviet policy and not the consequence
of a steep decline in applications. There are hundreds of
thousands of Soviet Jews
who would leave the USSR if
. they were free to emigrate,
Yet Soviet" authorities now
publicly proclaim that the
Jewish emigration question
has been solved and that
there are no longer any Jewish refuseniks in the Soviet
Union." ' ■",
the 1920s, that means No, No,
Nanette is going to have one
exciting send-off when it
opens-Jan:-Mat-the Roth/
Resler Theatre of the Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Center. A
Roaring Twenties party
after the 8:30 p.m. show will
give theater-goers a chance
to taste the era of Nanette's
birth and meet guest star
Ted Pritchard.
No, No, Nanette returned
to Broadway on Jan. 19,1971
— 46 years after its. first triumph in 1925. Block-long
lines formed immediately at
the box office and remained
there for the next 25 months.
The show's warm nostalgia
set off a craze for the past in
women's clothing, furniture
and advertising. Life magazine devoted half an issue to
the craze, with illustrations
of No, No, Nanette as well as
old movie stills and pictures
of the movie palaces and
fashions of the "Roaring
20s."
"Old is in," Life reported,
"and we are happily awash
in the sleek and gaudy period
of the '20s and '30s — women's fashions, old movies,
nearly forgotten dances like .
the maxixe, the tango, the
fox-trot, the bunny hug and
clickety tap-dancing. —
which are all stepped to
again in No, No, Nanette.
Old radio shows began
coming out in record albums. New books remembered the great films and
stars of early movies. Other
shows were revived, including Irene from 1919 and The
Desert Song from 1926.
Gallery players subscribers will be able to enjoy
such nostalgia at the opening
night party for an additional
$7.50 for center members or
$10 for nonsmembers. People
who have not subscribed to
the Gallery Players season
can attend the opening night
performance and party for
$17.50 for Jewish Center
members and $20 for non-
members.
For more information, call
Gallery Players at 231-2731.
aegis of the United Nations
flag.
This hope was also seen in
the declaration by the State
Department that the meeting in Cairo two week's ago
between Arafat and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was an "encouraging development."
The meeting shocked the
Israelis who said it contradicted the Camp David
agreements. Ambassador
Meir Rosenne went to the
State Department to express
the Israeli view and called
Mubarak's meetings with
Arafat "encouragement to
terrorism."
Reagan Sees Progress
But Reagan, in an interview with reporters from the
four major world news agencies, made it clear that he
sees the meeting as perhaps
leading to Arafat's endorsement of Hussein's participation in the peace talks on behalf of the Palestinians.
"I think that what President Mubarak is doing is
talking to him (Arafat)
about returning to where he
was earlier, making contact
with King Hussein and getting those "peace- negotiations, our peace proposal,
under way again," Reagan
said in the interview.
Reagan added that he no
longer believes that a set-
. Element in Lebanon has to be
reached before the peace negotiations can continue. "I
think enough progress has
been made there that we can
go forward with the peace
movement," he said.
The President disagreed
with the Israelis that the
Mubarak-Arafat meeting
was a violation of Camp
David. "I can understand
their (the Israelis') feelings
in view of the recent (bus
bombing) tragedy in Jerusalem and the group taking
credit for that claims to be a
PLO group and all," he said.
"But at the same time, I
think as they look at this a
. little more clearly, they will
see that Mubarak, based on
the experience of Egypt and
its willingness to go forward
for peace, is simply trying to
persuade others to change
their thinking."
Fragility Of The New
Agreement
The differences between
the U.S. and Israel were seen
by some to reveal the fragility of the new agreement for
close strategic cooperation
between the two countries,
announced during Premier
Yitzhak Shamir's recent
visit to Washington.
But State Department
spokesman John Hughes
pointed out several times
that it was not unusual for
close friends and allies to
disagree. Shamir made the
same point during his speech
to the National Press Club
here.
But not mentioned was
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JNF Establishes
Senator Jackson
Memorial Forest
A forest has been established in Israel by the Jewish
National Fund to honor the
memory of Senator Henry
M. Jackson, a man dedicated to the State of Israel
and the struggle to win freedom for Soviet Jewry.
The memorial forest will
be established in the
American Independence
Park, located in the Judean
Hills outside of Jerusalem.
On Nov. 2, Charlotte Jacob-
son, the Jewish National
Fund National president,
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Anti-Defamation League Cites
eeond Klaus Barbie Case1
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NEW YORK (JTA) - The
Anti-Defamation League of
B'nai B'rith last week revealed that U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps (CIO
employed.a Nazi war criminal convicted by a Belgian
military court of 67 war
crimes, including the torture
of two AmeTrican Army
pilots.
The ADL indentified him
as Robert Jan Verbelen, a
former Belgian citizen now
Jewish Organizations Shocked
Over Georgia Pardons Board's
Refusal To Exonerate Leo Frank
. NEW YORK (JTA) - Major American Jewish organizations expressed shock and
outrage over the decision by
the Georgia State Board of
Pardons and Paroles to deny
posthumous pardon to Leo
Frank, a Jewish factory
superintendent who was convicted of the murder of a
13-year-old girl in Atlanta in
1913 and who was lynched
two years later by a mob in
one of the nation's worst outbursts of anti-Semitism.
Pictured (1, to r.) are Gayle Yawetz, Bill Bugh, Jon
Garrison, and Susan Weckstein, as they will appear in
JVo,,JVo; Nqnette, "which opens Jan. 14 at the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center.
The State Board chairman, Mobley Howell, said
after the decision was announced, that Jewish organizations that had sought the
< exoneration of Frank failed
. to show beyond doubt that he
was innocent. In a written
statement, Howell said:
"After an exhaustive review and many hours of
deliberation, it is impossible
to decide conclusively the
guilt or innocence of Leo
Frank. There are many inconsistencies in the accounts
of what happened."
The Board of Pardons reviewed the case aftet Alonzo
Mann, now 85 years old, who
was a 14-year-old office boy
at the time Mary Phagan, an
employee of the National
Pencil Company was killed,
told reporters lasl year that
he had seen the factory's
janitor, Jim Conley, carrying the limp, unconscious
body of the young girl to the
factory basement. The
parole board claimed that
Mann's statement did not
provide any new evidence.
Jewish organizations had
also presented hundreds of
pages of documentation to
prove that Frank was innocent.
living in Austria, and described his connection with
the CIC as "a second Klaus
Barbie case."
According to ADL, Verbelen, who fled his native country after the war, worked for
American authorities in Austria from 1946 to 1955 under
the name Alfred H. Schwab.
The ADL said it has information that the U.S. Army was
aware of Verbelen's true
identity when he was hired.
In 1947, Verbelen was tried
in absentia and sentenced to
death by a Belgian military
court after having been convicted of crimes involving
mass murders and terrorist
acts. The acts he was found
guilty of, ADL further disclosed, included unlawfully
capturing, imprisoning and
torturing two American
pilots, identified at Lt. Nun-
tio Street and Lt. Eugene
Dingledine, who were shot
down over Belgium'.
The two eventually wound
up at Buchenwald concentration camp, from
which they were liberated by
the Russians in the closing
days of World War II. The
ADL said it did not know
where the men were from or
whether they are still alive.
Justice Department Urged
To Investigate
In a letter to U.S. Attorney
General William French
Smith (dated Dec. 16),
Justin Finger, director of
ADL's Civil Rights Division,
called on the Justice Department " to , investigate how
Verbelen was a,ble to escape
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